hash

noun

(typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.

A confused mess.

(slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

(computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.

(computing) The result generated by a hash function.

A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.

A hash run.

(Scotland) A stupid fellow.

A surname.

verb

(computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

(transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.

(transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.

To make a quick, rough version.

Roots

hachehash- · French · axe, to chop

Synonyms for hash

hashishn ganjan roastn stewn marijuanan

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